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Review of Good and Green Again

Good and Green Again

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Paradise of Bachelors

Rating: ★★★

Like a roiling campfire on a cool autumn night, Columbus, Georgia-born, Durham, North Carolina-based Jake Fussell’s Good and Green Again...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of Hell on Church Street

Hell on Church Street

Punch Brothers

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

The death of Tony Rice on Christmas Day 2020 robbed bluegrass of one of its most influential musicians. Béla Fleck’s...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2

Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

Soul Jazz continue their excavation of Cuba’s Areito records with a second volume picking up where the first left off....

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Chambacú

Chambacú

Aurita y su Conjunto

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★

Colombian singer Aurita Castillo was just six or seven years old when she recorded two albums for Discos Fuentes in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes

The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This two-CD compilation broadens the historical scope of the American folk revival of the 1960s to include the San Francisco...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo y los Alaracosos

Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo y los Alaracosos

Los Chapillacs

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Ten years after their debut, Peru’s Los Chapillacs are back, and their sound has hardly changed. Which is a great...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Kokoda

Kokoda

Ilan-Ilan

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★

Named for the flower that scents the air of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the Ilan-Ilan band was created in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of The Capitol Session ’73

The Capitol Session ’73

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Tuff Gong

Rating: ★★★★

After being unceremoniously dumped from their opening slot on a Sly and the Family Stone tour, Bob Marley and the...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute

Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute

Gary Stroutsos

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

The cloud of mystery around the Hopi long flute has been an inspiration for veteran flautist Gary Stroutsos for a...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Doran

Doran

Doran

Spinster

Rating: ★★★★

Freak-folk quartet Doran took a unique tack when writing their self-titled debut. In January 2019, in an attic in rural...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

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